Combination article display-container and traveling-case



W. J. ENGEL March 10, 1936.

COMBINATION ARTICLE DISPLAY CONTAINER AND TRAVELING CASE Filed NOV. 12, 1934 INVENTOP, /4/'///km J. 5

UNITED STATES COMBINATION ARTICLE DISPLAY-CON- TAINER AND TRAVELING-CASE -William J. Engcl, St. Louis, Mo., assignor to Universal-Engel Paper Box Manufacturing Company, Inc., St. Louis, Mo., a corporation of Missouri Application November 12, 1934, Serial No. 752,558

This invention relates to a certain new and useful improvement in containers.

My invention has for its chief object the provision of a container uniquely constructed for both neatly, compactly, and attractively housing or boxing, as well as also displaying, its contents.

My invention has for a further object the provision of a container of the type stated that is simple in structure, that may be inexpensively manufactured, that is readily .portable and is equally usable whether for article display purposes in merchandising stores or the like or for individual article storage or carrying purposes, whether at home or in traveling, and that, when in closed condition, efficiently protects its contents and when in open position visually presents its contents to view.

And with the above and other objects in view, my invention resides in the novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts presently described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is a perspective view in closed condi ti n of a combination article display-container and traveling-case embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is a front elevational view of the display-container and traveling-case as when in opened or upstanding display condition;

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmental transverse sectional view of the display-container and traveling-case taken approximately on the line 3-8, Figure 2; and

Figure 4 is an enlarged fragmental longitudinal sectional view of the display-container and traveling-case taken approximately on the line 4-4, Figure 2.

Referring now more in detail and by reference characters to the drawing, which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention, the displaycontainer and traveling-case includes a bodyportion in the form of a preferably oblong-rectangular relatively shallow tray A comprising a base or bottom-wall I, adhesively or otherwise permanently fixed to, and upstanding from the margins of, which are respectively opposed endwalls 2, 2, and off and near side-walls 3, 3', respectively, all constructed of wood, suitably heavy card-board, or other suitable relatively stiff or semi-rigid material.

Disposed upon, and adhesively or otherwise fixed to, the upper face of the wall I and the inner, top, and outer faces of the respective walls 2, 3, and 3', is a facing t, whose margins are extended under, and adhesively or otherwise fixed ciaims. (01. 206-7) to the lower face of, the base-wall I, as best seen i I in Figures 3 and 4, the facing 4, which may be constructed of coloredpaper, fabric, or the like of the required strength, both giving a decorative finish to the tray A and re-enforcing the walls 2, 3, and 3' in their attachment upon the base-wall l. 7

Fixed to the base-wall I adjacent an end-wall 2 and projecting forwardly therefrom into the tray A, is an eye 5, engaged with which for swingable movement is a preferably elongated approximately oblong-rectangular ring 6, about a bar of which any suitable article of merchandise, such, for instance, as neckties N, may be disposed for flatwise folded disposition within the tray A, as best shown in Figure 2, the free ends of the folded ties N being preferably disposed under and retained in the tray A by means of an elastic strip 1 disposed crosswise within the tray A adjacent its opposite end-wall 2 with its ends suitably secured to the base I or intermediate the base I and the opposite side-walls 3, 3.

Forming part of a combined cover and enveloping member B for the tray A, is an outer section or sheet 8 of some suitable flexible attractive or decorative material, such as imitation leather, relatively heavy paper, fabric, or the like having a length dimension substantially the same as that of the tray A and a width dimension somewhat greater than twice the width dimension of the tray. Disposed flatwise upon the inner face of the section 8 in approximate registration with the opposite end portions thereof and spaced, as at 9, the one from the other at their respective inner margins and centrally of the outer section 8, a distance equal substantially to the height of the tray side-wall 3, are sections l0, ill, of some relatively stiff or semirigid, light-weight material, such as suitable card-board or the like, the outer sheet 8 at its margins, as at 8, being folded inwardly upon and adhesively or otherwise fixed in marginally enveloping relation to, the respective inner faces of the cover-strengthening sections l0, l.

At its one or right-hand margin, as at 0, reference being made to Figures 1 and 2, the member B is disposed flatwise upon, otherwise fixed to, the outer face of the tray side-wall 3. The member B is then bent, as at b, to extend flatwise under, and is adhesively or otherwise fixed to, the under face of the basewall I of the tray A, the one section it approximately'then registering at its opposite or inner margin with the outer face of the opposite tray and adhesively or side-wall 3, as shown in Figure 3.. The remaining or left-hand portion of the member 13 is then readily, as a flap, foldable to enclosingly overlie the tray A and its contents N. In such fiapwise folding, the space 9 intermediate the semi-rigid cover-sections M, II, specifically registers with and covers the outer side-face of the tray wall I, and the member B is scored or bent upon itself, as at b, adjacent its free margin in the provision of a supplemental or end flap b for extension downwardly over the fixed end portion 17 of the member B when the latter is in closed position, the end-portionsb, b, of the member B being provided with co-operable snap-couplet or other fastening members H, H, for detachably securing the member B in tray-covering and enveloping position. Aswill be observed, the outer faces V of the tray end-walls 2, 2, are freely visible when the member B is in its described tray-covering and enveloping position.

For finish and strengthening purposes, the free foldable end-portion of the member B is provided upon its inner face with an additional section II of flexible material preferably similar to and having the characteristics of the sheet 8, the one end-portion i2 of which being interposed and concealed between the base-wall l and the cover-section Ill, and adhesively or otherwise fixed upon the inner face of the free or flap endportion of flap B, is a pocket l3 for containing and displaying other articles of merchandise, such, for instance, as handkerchiefs or the like 1-1, the pocket B being of a size to flt within the tray A and over the articles N when the member B is, as shown in Figure 1, in traycovering and enveloping condition.

The container may be inexpensively manufactured and has many uses, such, for instance, as a compact readily handled traveling case for neckties, handkerchiefs, or the like, as a display in upright position for attractively exhibiting its contents upon a counter, show-case, high-boy, or the like, or as a decorative receptacle for gift or article storage purposes, in all of which uses, the container is exceedingly unique and efficient.

And it is to be understood that changes in the form, construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of the display-container may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a combination article display-container and travelingcase including an open-top tray comprising a base-wall and off and near side-walls upstanding from the opposite side margins of the base-wall,

what I and an enveloping-member fiatwise re-enforcing- 1y underlying the tray base-wall and havinga marginal portion fixed upon the outer face of the tray of! side-wall, said member comprising an extension providing a main flap-portion for foldably overlying thetray and its near side-wall and a supplemental fiap tor foldably overlying the tray of! side-wall and forming a closure for the open top 'of the tray.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a combination article display-container and travelingcase including an open-top tray comprising a base-wall and off and near side-walls upstanding from the opposite side margins of the base-wall, a flexible sheet marginally fixed upon the outer face of the tray of! side-wall and underlying the base-wall, the sheet having an extension for foldably overlying the tray and the tray of! side-wall and forming a closure for the open top of the tray, a first section re-enforcingly fixed flatwise intermediate the base-wall and said sheet, and a second section spaced from the first section and re-enforcinglyfixed fiatwise to and upon said extension.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a combination article display-container and traveling case including an open-top tray comprising a base-wall and oil and near side-walls upstanding from the opposite side margins of the base-wall, a flexible sheet marginally fixed upon the outer face of the tray oif side-wall and underlying the base-wall, the sheet having an extension for foldably overlying the tray and the tray ofl! side-wall and forming a closure for the open top of the tray, a first section re-enforcingly fixed fiatwise intermediate the base-wall and said sheet, a second section spaced from the first section and reenforcingly fixed flatwise to and upon said extension, and a facing portion projecting from said extension for overlying said second section.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a combination article display-container and traveling,- case including an open-top tray comprising a base-wall and oil! and near side-walls upstanding from the opposite side margins of the base-wall, an enveloping-member fiatwise re-enforcingly underlying the tray base-wall and having a marginal portion fixed upon the outer face of the tray ofl side-wall, said member comprising an extension providing a main flap-portion'for foldably overlying the tray and its near side-wall :nd a supplemental fiap for foldably overlying he tray of! side-wall and forming a closure for the open top of the tray, and co-operable members on said marginal portion and the supplemental fiap for releasably securing the extension in tray-closure position.

J. ENGEL. 

